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flaccesco

to wilt

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Where it lives

Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

flaccesco — Lewis & Short

flaccesco (ante-class. also flaccisco), flaccŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to wilt, wither, dry up (cf. tabesco).

I Lit.: faeniculum cum legeris, sub tecto exponito, dum flaccescat, Col. 12, 7, 4: flaccescente fronde, Vitr. 2, 9, 2: stercus cum flaccuit, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 4. —

II Trop., to become faint or feeble, to droop, languish: flucti flacciscunt, silescunt venti, Pac. ap. Non. 488, 15 (Trag. Rel. v. 77 ed. Rib.): flaccescebat oratio, * Cic. Brut. 24, 93: flaccescentes voluptates, Arn. 4, 142: ad numerum cymbalorum mollita indignatione flaccescunt, i. e. become mild, softened, id. 7, 237.

In the wild

flaccescebat Cicero, Brutus 93
flaccescente Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.9.2
flaccescat Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.12.5

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